What are the signs of a dysfunctional family? What are the effects of growing up in one? by Sakshi Nandan

What are the signs of a dysfunctional family? What are the effects of growing up in one? by Sakshi Nandan https://padlet.com/snandan2022/eowclqawgex54qe0 Sakshi Nandan en-us 2022-05-19 23:51:40 UTC 2022-05-26 13:00:01 UTC hello@padlet.com Author Bio snandan2022 https://padlet.com/snandan2022/eowclqawgex54qe0/wish/2192113052 Franz Kafka was born into a middle-class, German-speaking Jewish family on July 3, 1883 in Prague, Bohemia, now the Czech Republic.

Franz was the eldest of six children. He had two younger brothers who died in infancy and three younger sisters, all of whom perished in concentration camps.

His father, Hermann Kafka was described as a huge ill-tempered domestic tyrant, who on many occasions directed his anger towards his son and was disrespectful towards his escape into literature. All his life Kafka struggled to come to terms with his domineering father.

Franz did well in school, taking classes like Latin, Greek and history. He obtained the degree of Doctor of Law in 1906. In 1907 Kafka started working in a huge Italian insurance company, where he stayed for nearly a year. He was unhappy with his working time schedule as it made it extremely difficult for him to concentrate on his writing. On July 15, 1908, he resigned, and a few weeks later found more suitable employment with the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia. He worked there until July 1922 when he retired for reasons of ill health.

It is generally agreed that Kafka suffered from clinical depression and social anxiety throughout his entire life. He also suffered from migraines, insomnia, constipation, boils, and other ailments, all usually brought on by excessive stresses and strains. He died of tuberculosis on June 3, 1924.

]]> 2022-05-20 00:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/snandan2022/eowclqawgex54qe0/wish/2192113052 Time and Setting snandan2022 https://padlet.com/snandan2022/eowclqawgex54qe0/wish/2192115733 Kafka’s celebrated novella The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) was written a century ago, in late 1912, during a period in which he was having difficulty making progress on his first novel. On November 17, 1912, Kafka wrote to his fiancée Felice Bauer that he was working on a story that “came to me in my misery lying in bed” and now was haunting him. He hoped to get it written down quickly—he hadn’t yet realized how long it would be—as he felt it would turn out best if he could write it in just one or two long sittings. But there were many interruptions, and he complained to Felice several times that the delays were damaging the story. Three weeks later, on December 7, it was finished, though it would be another three years before the story saw print.

]]> 2022-05-20 00:07:38 UTC https://padlet.com/snandan2022/eowclqawgex54qe0/wish/2192115733 (Non-Fiction Connection) Agassi's childhood misery the real shock snandan2022 https://padlet.com/snandan2022/eowclqawgex54qe0/wish/2192121556 “I play tennis for a living, even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion, and always have.” Day in and day out, Andre Agassi’s father ran his son mercilessly through his own brand of tennis boot camp. Daddy’s constant tennis hard-lining did have the expected result, in that it turned Andre into a kind of tennis-playing superhero. But in the process he also cultivated a deep, dark hatred of the sport. His miserable childhood led him to develop an addiction for crystal meth.

]]> 2022-05-20 00:13:55 UTC https://padlet.com/snandan2022/eowclqawgex54qe0/wish/2192121556 Art Connection snandan2022 https://padlet.com/snandan2022/eowclqawgex54qe0/wish/2192122561 Title: Family Story 07-11

Creator: Yim, Man Hyeok

Date Created: 2007

Yim, Man Hyeok shows us a seeming indifference, primal anxiety, and isolation of the individual in the framework of the family spirit of blood relatives. He forbids himself to send a careless message of omnipotent hope that could save the people in his work. Like the small lighthouse hardly visible in the distance, everything is too far away and weak. Almost everything depends on the free will of the protagonists.

]]> 2022-05-20 00:14:57 UTC https://padlet.com/snandan2022/eowclqawgex54qe0/wish/2192122561 Poetry Connection snandan2022 https://padlet.com/snandan2022/eowclqawgex54qe0/wish/2192124256 A Broken Family Tree

Published: February 2006

I am one of many

Small branches of a broken tree,

Always looking to the ones above

For guidance, strength and security.

One little branch trying

To keep the others from breaking away.

Who will fall?

And who will stay?

Now I stand alone,

Looking at the earth through the rain,

And I see the broken branches I knew

Scattered about me in pain.

There are those who have taken an ax

To the root of our very foundation

And who have passed this destruction

Down to every new generation.

If I could take that ax,

I would toss it deep into the sea,

Never to return again

To harm the generations that follow me.

I am one of many,

But alone I will go

And plant the new seeds

Where a beautiful tree will grow.

]]> 2022-05-20 00:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/snandan2022/eowclqawgex54qe0/wish/2192124256 Video Introduction snandan2022 https://padlet.com/snandan2022/eowclqawgex54qe0/wish/2200828890 2022-05-26 12:58:37 UTC https://padlet.com/snandan2022/eowclqawgex54qe0/wish/2200828890